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3.0.1.174

Released on: March 2024

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  • General Update

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTRIA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, IRELAND, ITALY, MEXICO, SINGAPORE, SPAIN, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Aruba

      • AdministrativeArea now returned

    • Austria

      • Improved handling of subpremises variations
      • Added alias information. Now, non-official but still used variations of an address, as designated by AustriaPost, will be coded as valid

    • Belgium

      • Better handling and parsing of BUS premises

    • Brazil

      • Major data update to improve coverage

    • Finland

      • MelissaAddressKey values now available

    • France

      • Improved handling for different non-standard variations of subpremise and building information in the address lines
      • We have made an improvement to code more potential addresses. For thoroughfares in the postal source data that does not have any possible premises number, based on local research, we will now code those to AV24. These are interpreted as local special delivery areas that should be fully validated even without a house number

    • Germany

      • Fixed an over-aggressiveness issue where a exact thoroughfare name match would be chosen with a different Locality and postal code over a close fuzzy thoroughfare name match in the same Locality and postal code
      • Fixed an issue where some latin version of diacritics returned (when OutputScript is set to Latin) was not the correct preferred version

    • Great Britain

      • Fixed an edge case pattern where some records in the Royal Mail PAF data that did not have a normal format were not carried over to our database. Less than 1% of addresses were affected

    • Hong Kong

      We have made a major update with new data along with a revamped and improved engine.

      • Better building data now available
      • More accurate premises data now available. Buildings and centers that cover more than one house number are more accurately parsed as premises number
      • Significant reduction in over-aggressiveness
      • Improved handling of duplicate area names from the input
      • Improved casing for Locality values
      • Improved FormattedAddress to more closely match postal preferences
      • MelissaAddressKey values now available

    • Indonesia

      We have changed our source for Indonesia as our previous source was deemed to be no longer reliable. We will look for new and better sources for this country for the future.

      • FormattedAddress improved to more closely match local postal standards
      • The prefix of “No. “ added to the premises number as per postal preference
      • StreetName prefix of Jl instead of Jalan being used as per postal preference
      • SubAdministrativeArea now available
      • Fixed an issue where duplicate area names were sometimes being returned
      • UTC and Timezone now available

    • Ireland

      • Improved coding rate
      • Drastically improved speed (35%-40%)
      • Reduced false corrections

    • Italy

      • Improved parsing for non-verified inputs
      • Filled in cases where CountrySubdivisionCode returned were blank

    • Latvia

      • MelissaAddressKey values now available

    • Maldives

      • AdministrativeArea and SubNationalArea values updated with better values

    • Mexico

      • Improved several cases of over aggressive address changes

    • New Zealand

      • MelissaAddressKey values now available
      • AddressType now available

    • Saudi Arabia

      We have changed our source for Saudi Arabia as our previous source was not being updated anymore. We will look for new and better sources for this country for the future.

      • House number coverage no longer available
      • FormattedAddress improved to more closely match local postal standards
      • Locality and PostalCode now returned in separate address lines as per local postal standards
      • DoubleDependentLocality now available
      • UTC and Timezone now available

    • Singapore

      • Updated the data to improve address coverage
      • Reduced false coding
      • More address patterns recognized, especially of addresses with subpremises

    • Spain

      • Improved street type pattern recognition

    • Sudan

      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned

    • Thailand

      We have changed our source for Thailand as our previous source was deemed to be no longer reliable. We will look for new and better sources for this country for the future.

      • FormattedAddress improved to more closely match local postal standards
      • DependentLocality and Locality returned on the same line as per postal preference
      • Fixed an issue where duplicate area names were sometimes being returned
      • UTC and Timezone now available

    • Turkey

      • Filled in cases where CountrySubdivisionCode returned were blank

    • United States

      • Improved logic for recognizing LA vs Los Angeles and NY vs New York when the house number is invalid.
      • Improved pattern recognition of Urbanization in the Address2 line.
      • Fixed an issue where in some cases, the MelissaAddressKey was not being cleared correctly between records.
      • Fixed an issue where US or US Territory inputs that contains a diacritic that was not within code page 1252 resulted in the address not coding.

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Released on: November 2023

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  • General Update

    • We are excited to partner with Başarsoft to provide access to the best Address and Geocoding data available for the country of Turkey. Başarsoft is the premier in-country provider of address and geographic information for the country and is the exclusive authorized MapInfo representative for Turkey since 1999. There is no better available on the market.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ALGERIA, ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, BAHRAIN, BELARUS, COOK ISLANDS, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GREAT BRITAIN, GUATEMALA, HONG KONG, IRAQ, ITALY, MALTA, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Algeria

      We have changed our data source for Algeria as our previous source was deemed to be no longer reliable. This country is now a locality level country as we search for better alternatives.

      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • DependentLocality and SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • SubAdministrativeArea now returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Argentina

      • The full 7 digit postal code is now available for portions of the country. We are working on adding more coverage.

    • Australia

      • Improved Geocoding coverage and increase percentage of rooftop level geocoding available
      • We are working on Non-postal data to be made available in a future update

    • Austria

      • Improved coding rates
      • Improved pattern recognition and handling of typos and errors
      • Added more abbreviations and patterns in the handling of subpremises types

    • Bahrain

      We have updated our data source for Bahrain to increase and improve coverage.

      • Improved street level and house number coverage
      • Improved geocoding
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • AdministrativeArea and DependentLocality now available
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Belarus

      • Improved Thoroughfare Leading Type coverage and parsing

    • Cook Islands

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Djibouti

      • We have added partial house number coverage data for this country

    • Ecuador

      We have updated our data source for Ecuador. Our new data source has high quality thoroughfare level data but no longer has house level coverage. It was determined that our previous data source did not have consistent house number coverage.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Better pattern matching for thoroughfares and dependent thoroughfares
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • SubAdministrativeArea now available for return
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • El Salvador

      We have updated our data source for El Salvador to improve coverage.

      • Improved street level coverage
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • Improved handling of duplicate input data
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Improved locality level geocoding
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Great Britain

      • Fixed an issue where the postbox number was returned in Premises instead of PostBox. This resulted in missing data in the FormattedAddress.

    • Guatemala

      We have changed our data source for Guatemala as our previous source was deemed to be no longer reliable.

      • Improved locality level geocoding
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards.
      • DependentLocality, SubAdministrativeArea, SubNationalArea no longer returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Hong Kong

      • Significantly reduced the incidents of false coding due to ambigious building names
      • Fixed an issue where Building was being returned in upper case
      • Fixed an issue an unnecessary space was present in some data returned in Chinese script
      • Fixed a bug where sometimes FormattedAddress would have missing data

    • Iraq

      We have updated our data source for Iraq to improve coverage.

      • Improved street level coverage
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • Improved coverage for DependentLocality and SubAdministrativeArea
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Italy

      • Fixed an issue where input postal code would not be recognized correct and be duplicated in the output
      • Improved casing for streets that contain apostrophes
      • Improved recognition of different synonyms for numbers (ex: 20 vs Venti vs XX)
      • Improved recognition and parsing of Thoroughfare Leading Types

    • Malta

      We have updated our data for Malta to improve coverage and quality.

      • Full postal code for the full country now available
      • Full street level and house number level data now available
      • Improved geocoding

    • Nepal

      • We have added partial house number coverage data for this country

    • Senegal

      We have updated our data source for Senegal to improve coverage.

      • Improved street level and postal code coverage
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • DoubleDependentLocality now available
      • Improved locality level geocoding
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Sierra Leone

      We have updated our data source for Sierra Leone to improve coverage.

      • Improved street level and house number coverage
      • Improved geocoding
      • FormattedAddress improved to better match in country postal standards. Thoroughfare type now returned in non-abbreviated form.
      • SubAdministrativeArea now available
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Singapore

      • Resolved the issue where streets that end in a number were falsely changed to a similar street. The number was being interpreted as a subpremise.
      • Improved recognition and handling of multiple different subpemise patterns
      • Fixed a issue where input postal code was sometimes not recognized and duplicated on the output.

    • United States

      • Fixed an issue where MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase values for a invalid address was being inherited from the previous record if the previous records was a valid address.
      • We have changed last line of the FormattedAddress from using the common but more informal "City, State Zip" to the more USPS preferred version of "City State Zip" as per their latest postal address standards: https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/Pub28/pub28.pdf

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Security

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Released on: August 2023

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  • General Update

    • We are happy to announce our new partnership with New Zealand Post. We are now providing our users with the best and most detailed NZ data available. Additionally, the long-anticipated CASS Cycle O from the USPS is now here. We have passed our certification and all new cycle changes are now included. More details in the United States section below.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ALAND ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA, BANGLADESH, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, GERMANY, HONG KONG, KENYA, LEBANON, MACAU, MAURITIUS, NAMIBIA, NEW ZEALAND, POLAND, TANZANIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED STATES, VANUATU, YEMEN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Aland Islands

      • Improved area level validation
      • Reduced false coding

    • Aruba

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Australia

      • Reduced cases of false coding
      • Greatly improved coverage of rooftop level geocoding

    • Bangladesh

      We have updated our data source for Bangladesh. This country has been changed to a street level validation country (AV-3) as it was determined that our house number data source was insufficient.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Improved Geocoding
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • Address lines will now return house number before street to match country preferences
      • Reduced the incidence of false coding
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Belgium

      • MAK numbers now available

    • Belize

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Benin

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Botswana

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Brunei Darussalam

      We have updated our data source for Brunei Darussalam to improve coverage.

      • Improved house number coverage
      • Improved Geocoding
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • Locality and AdministrativeArea positioning now better reflect country preferences
      • Reduced the incidence of false coding
      • DependentLocality no longer returned
      • SubAdministrativeArea now returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Burkina Faso

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Burundi

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Chad

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Comoros

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Cote D’Ivoire

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Curacao

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Denmark

      • MAK numbers now available

    • Dominica

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Democratic Republic of Congo

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Gabon

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Gambia

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Germany

      • Improving coding for addressing missing the “ß”.
      • Improved coverage of Packstation addresses

    • Gernada

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Hong Kong

      We have done a major data update and significantly improved our data.

      • Improved coding rates
      • Major improvement on Building data available for the country
      • Major Improvement on Chinese data available for the country
      • Improvement on the locality data
      • Major improvement on latitude and longitude precision
      • SubBuilding data now available

    • Kenya

      We have updated our data source for Kenya.

      • Improved Geocoding
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • DependentLocality and AdministrativeArea no longer returned as part of the FormattedAddress
      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country
      • Better SubAdministrativeArea data now returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Lebanon

      We have updated our data source for Lebanon to improve coverage.

      • Improved House Number and Street coverage
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • Better SubAdministrativeArea data now returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Macau

      We have updated our data source.

      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • DependentLocality no longer returned as part of the FormattedAddress
      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country
      • SubAdministrativeArea and AdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Improved Geocoding
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Mauritius

      We have updated our data source for Mauritius to improve coverage.

      • Improved Street coverage
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • Monaco

      • Improved the casing of thoroughfare types in the Address lines and parsed fields

    • Namibia

      We have updated our data source for Namibia to improve coverage.

      • Improved Street coverage
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • DependentLocality no longer returned as part of the FormattedAddress
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available
      • Improved Geocoding

    • Norway

      • MAK Numbers now available

    • New Zealand

      We are happy to officially kick off our partnership with New Zealand Post and provide our users with official NZPost address data.

      • SubPremise and Building information now available
      • Premium Rooftop geocoding now available
      • FormattedAddress updated to fit NZPost standards for Rural and Urban data
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available

    • Poland

      • Improved pattern recognition and coding accuracy
      • Reduced false coding
      • Fixed a bug where part of the input was not correctly echoed to the output
      • Cleaned up data that was slotted into Remnants

    • Sao Tome and Principe

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Solomon Islands

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Tanzania

      We have updated our data source for Tanzania to improve coverage.

      • PostalCode data now available
      • Formatted Address updated to better comply with postal standards
      • PostalCode now returned as part of the FormattedAddress
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available
      • Improved Geocoding
      • DependentLocality no longer returned
      • SubAdministrativeArea data now available

    • Timor Leste

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • United Arab Emirates

      • Improved Thoroughfare parsing

    • United States

      We have undergone the certification process for the new USPS CASS Cycle O. This CASS Cycle encompasses all the latest rules and changes from the USPS.

      • Improved handling of CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency)
      • Now it is possible for zips to cross state lines
      • Improved handling of single alpha suffixes on house numbers. For more information, please see the USPS executive summary here
      • Fixed a bug where for some edge cases, no AV codes were missing from the Results

    • Vanuatu

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

    • Yemen

      • No longer returning postal code from the input as they are not used in the country

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Security

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Released on: June 2023

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  • General Update

    • We have fixed an issue where for AE05 (Multiple Match) errors, the engine could sometimes return an administrative area value that is incorrect or in the incorrect script.

    • Country Subdivision Code, also known as ISO 3166-2, is a code for identifying the principal subdivisions of a country defined and maintained by the ISO Organization https://www.iso.org/. We have made substantial progress is getting these values filled out for countries where they are used. With this update, we have added these values to a significant number of countries.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ANGOLA, ALAND ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA, CAMEROON, CANADA, CHAD, CONGO, DENMARK, ERITREA, ESWATINI, GERMANY, GUINEA, GUYANA, HONDURAS, IRAN, KOREA, MALI, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, NEW CALEDONIA, NORTH MACEDONIA, SEYCHELLES, SINGAPORE, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ANGOLA

      • No longer returning postal code from input as they are not used in the country
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Improvement in Geocoding
      • CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • ALAND ISLANDS We have updated our source for Aaland Island to a postal quality source.

      • Premises level data (AV-4) data now available
      • Rooftop geocoding now available
      • Locality is now upper cased in the formatted address per postal preference
      • CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • AUSTRALIA We have performed a revamp of our Australia engine to improve our matching capabilities and coding rates for this country.

      • Improved recognition of thoroughfare trailing types, including alternate variations and common typos
      • Decreased cases of false coding
      • Improved coding rates and handling of more exotic addresses

    • CAMEROON

      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes

    • CANADA

      • Fixed a bug where duplicated data can rarely be found in the formatted address

    • CHAD

      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes

    • CONGO We have updated our data source for The Republic of Congo.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Improved Geocoding
      • CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • DENMARK

      • Improved thoroughfare parsing
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available

    • ERITREA

      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes

    • ESWANTINI We have updated our data source for Seychelles as our previous source is no longer deemed to be reliable.

      • Locality in the Formatted Address is now upper cased to better fit postal preference
      • Improved area level validation
      • Improved geocoding

    • FRANCE

      • We have improved our rooftop level geocoding data for France. Users should notice a significant increase in the number of rooftop level geocodes (GS05) moving forward with this update.

    • GERMANY

      • Fixed an issue where setting the OutputScript to Latin produced an address using a non-preferred version of the thoroughfare
      • Fixed an issue where a few localities could be returned with a non-preferred spelling

    • GUINEA We have updated our source for Guinea with better quality data.

      • Thoroughfare level validation now available
      • Improved geocoding
      • Formatted Address updated to better conform to postal preferences
      • Postal codes no longer echoed from input to output as the country does not use postal codes
      • CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • GUYANA

      • Improved Thoroughfare and premises level coverage
      • Improved geocoding

    • HONDURAS We have updated our data source for Honduras.

      • Improved Thoroughfare level validation now available
      • Improved geocoding
      • Improved handling of dependent thoroughfare data in the input
      • Formatted Address updated to better conform to postal preferences
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • IRAN We have updated our data source for Iran.

      • Thoroughfare level coding now possible
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • KOREA

      • Fixed an issue where Korean script could sometimes be returned when OutputScript was set to Latin.

    • MALI We have updated our data source for Mali.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Improved geocoding
      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes
      • SubAdministrativeArea and SubNationalArea no longer returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • MEXICO

      • Improving handling of abbreviated or non-standard thoroughfare types

    • MOLDOVA We have updated our data source for Moldova with a premium quality data source.

      • Premises level validation now available
      • Rooftop geocoding now available
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards
      • Postal Code Prefix no longer used

    • NEW CALEDONIA

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage

    • NORTH MACEDONIA

      • Official CountryName changed from Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of to North Macedonia as per Iso Standards.

    • POLAND

      • We have performed a major data refresh for Poland to fill in some missing rural areas that were missing in previous updates.

    • SEYCHELLES We have updated our data source for Seychelles as our previous source is no longer deemed to be reliable.

      • Seychelles is now a locality level validation country
      • AdministrativeArea now returned in Formatted Address as per postal preference
      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes

    • SINGAPORE

      • Improved pattern matching and coding rate
      • Improved geocoding rate
      • Significantly improved our parsing results for addresses we do not validate

    • SWEDEN

      • • Fixed an issue where diacritics could be converted to an incorrect ascii value when setting OutputScript to Latin.

    • TURKEY

      • Official country name changed from Turkey to Turkiye as per Iso Standards. Note that we are not using the diacritic version of Türkiye as many postal agencies do not want diacritic versions of country names in the mail stream.

    • UNITED STATES

      • Fixed an issue where Urbanization could be returned twice in the Formatted Address

    • ZAMBIA We have updated our data source for Zambia.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Improved geocoding
      • Formatted Address updated to better conform to postal preferences
      • Postal code data now available for return
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

    • ZIMBABWE We have updated our data source for Zimbabwe.

      • Improved thoroughfare level coverage
      • Improved geocoding
      • Postal codes from the input will no longer be carried through to output as the country does not use postal codes
      • SubAdministrativeArea output now available
      • DependentLocality no longer returned
      • Timezone and Daylight Savings flag now available

Deprecated

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Security

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Released on: March 2023

Added

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Changed

  • General Update

    • We have made a general improvement to our engine to cut down on the possibility of inputs with fake or garbage data to take a very long time to process

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ANDORRA, ARMENIA, AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, CHAD, DJIBOUTI, ERITREA, GABON, GUINEA, HAITI, LIBERIA, LIBYA, LUXEMBOURG, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MEXICO, NIGER, UGANDA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ANDORRA

      We have updated our data source for Andorra with a premium quality data source.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved House number coverage
      • Improved Rooftop level geocoding
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • AdministrativeArea and CountrySubdivisionCode are now available

    • ARMENIA

      We have updated our data source for Armenia with a premium quality data source.

      • Postal Code now available
      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • House number and Subpremise number information now available
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • CountrySubdivisionCode are now available
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • AUSTRALIA

      • Increase AV24 matching rates for cases where a base street address exists by itself and also with subpremise info. Previously, if a base street address had subpremises, our engine made a subpremise value required.

    • BAHAMAS

      We have improved our data source for Bahamas.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved House number coverage
      • Postal Codes from input no longer reflected in the output as this country does not use postal codes.
      • SubAdministrativeArea now available
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • CAMEROON

      • Improved thoroughfare coverage.

    • CANADA

      • Fixed an issue where an input with no delivery address can have the locality, administrative area, and postal code put into the delivery address information.

    • CHAD

      We have updated our data source for Chad. Our new data source now has street level and house number data.

      • Formatted Address changed to closer match postal standards
      • SubNationalArea now available
      • SubAdministrativeArea and DependentLocality no longer returned

    • DJIBOUTI

      • Input postal code values will no longer be returned as output postal code
      • Formatted Address will now include “Djibouti City” to along with Djibouti as the CountryName.
      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage

    • ERITREA

      We have updated our data source for Eritrea. Our new data source now has street level data.

      • Formatted Address changed to closer match postal standards
      • Thoroughfare level coverage now available
      • Improved Geocoding
      • The capital of Asmara City is now under the Administrative Area of Maekel.

    • FINLAND

      • We have added new “Location” data as the locality and moved the existing Locality into SubAdministrativeArea. For major cities these values will be the same but for rural areas the new Locality will be a better value.

    • FRANCE

      In 2019, the Departments of France were subdivided into 332 arrondissements (or districts). We have revamped area levels of France to standardize them to the most current and most useful values. Note that the parts of the address that are used for mailing have not changed.

      MD Output Value
      Locality The locality of the mailing address
      SubAdministrative Area The 332 arrondissements of France*
      Administrative Area The 102 Departments of France*
      SubNational Area The 18 regions of France*
      * These values are not part of the mail address.

    • GABON

      We have updated our data source for Gabon. Our new data source now has street level data.

      • Thoroughfare level coverage now available
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      Based on customer feedback, we have made a change to the Administrative Area values in our data. Instead of using the traditional county data, we are now using the Administrative county when populating this field.

      MD Output Source
      Locality Royal Mail PostalTown from the PAF data file
      Administrative Area Royal Mail Administrative County from the Alias file if available. Will use Traditional County or Formal Postal Count Administrative County is not available*
      SubNational Area Either England, North Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or British Forces*
      CountrySubdivisionCode The official ISO 3166-2 Country Subdivision Code value as defined by ISO. Use this value if you only want Administrative County values*
      * These values are not part of the mail address.

    • HAITI

      We have updated our data source for Haiti.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • PostalCode now returned with a prefix of “HT” as per postal standards
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • ICELAND

      • MAK numbers, CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and UTC now available.

    • LIBERIA

      We have updated our data source for Liberia.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • SubAdministrativeArea now returned
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • LIBYA

      We have updated our data source for Libya.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • AdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Postal code from input no longer returned in output as the country does not use postal codes
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standard

    • LIECHTENSTEIN

      • MAK numbers, CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and UTC now available.

    • LITHUANIA

      • Improved geocoding precision

    • LUXEMBOURG

      We have updated our data source for Andorra with a premium quality data source.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved House number coverage
      • Rooftop level geocoding now available
      • Boites Postales (AddressType=P) and PackUP (AddressType=U) data now available
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • CountrySubdivisionCode are now available
      • Improve thoroughfare parsing
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • MADAGASCAR

      We have updated our data source for Madagascar.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • SubAdministrativeArea and DependentLocality values now available
      • SubNationalArea no longer returned
      • Invalid PostalCode values no longer echoed in the output
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • MALAWI

      We have updated our data source for Malawi.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • Improved Locality matching
      • SubNationalArea value now available
      • DependentLocality no longer returned
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • MEXICO

      We have made a major improvement in Mexico in both Data and engine. Mexico is a top tier country, ranked 15th in the world in GDP. It was very important for us to improve this country and keep this country as high quality as possible.

      • New high quality address data including detailed suburb information
      • New high quality rooftop data
      • Re-architected advanced fuzzy matching engine
      • Official ISO 3166-2 Country Subdivision Codes
      • Time zones and UTC information
      • Formatted Address updated to match postal and in-country mailing standards
    Key Numbers:
    - 1 million thoroughfares
    - 12 million address points with rooftop level geocoding
    - 126K suburb, locality, and postal code combinations

    • NIGER

      We have updated our data source for Niger.

      • Improved Thoroughfare coverage
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • DependentLocality now available
      • Postal code from input no longer returned in output as the country does not use postal codes
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • NORWAY

      • Improved Thoroughfare parsing

    • SERBIA

      • MAK numbers, CountrySubdivisionCode, Timezone, and UTC now available.

    • SLOVAKIA

      • No longer returning description lot numbers in the address as users found that unnecessary.

    • SWEDEN

      • Improved geocoding

    • TIMOR-LESTE

      • Fixed the casing for the country from “Timor-leste” to “Timor-Leste”

    • UGANDA

      We have updated our data source for Uganda as the previous source was no longer deemed to be reliable.

      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • DependentLocality and DoubleDependentLocality now available
      • SubAdministrativeArea and SubNationalArea no longer returned
      • Postal code from input no longer returned in output as the country does not use postal codes
      • Formatted Address now more closely matches to postal standards

    • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

      • Invalid Postal Code data removed from data source and no longer returned from input

    • UNITED STATES

      • Fixed an issue where an input with no delivery address can have the locality, administrative area, and postal code put into the delivery address information
      • Improved Geocoding coverage
      • The 108th Congressional District data is now available

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: December 2022

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      We have made a significant general improvement in our engine relating to when OutputScript is set to Native or Latin. This setting will set the output to the Native script of a country or the Latin Script. In the previous version, there is a possibility that part of the address, notably the subpremise, building, subpremiselevel, or subbuilding may not always be returned using the desired script due to lack of data. We have improved our data and transliteration engine to mitigate this weakness.

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BELGIUM, CAMBODIA, FAROE ISLANDS, FINLAND, JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, MAURITANIA, NEPAL, NORWAY, SINGAPORE, TOGO, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, UZBEKISTAN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA

      • We have updated the version of the locality to closer match Australian Post values. This affects a small percentage of records.

    • BELGIUM

      • Fixed an issue in the FormattedAddress where Subpremise information can sometimes be on its own line instead of after the premises.

    • CAMBODIA

      We have updated our data source for Cambodia as our previous source quality has been deemed to be unsatisfactory. With this new source, changes include:

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • SubAdminstrativeArea no longer returned
      • AV23 level verification now available for more popular streets
      • Improved geocoding coverage
      • Reduced incidents of false corrections

    • CANADA

      • Improved parsing of ThoroughfareLeadingType and ThoroughfareTrailingType
      • Fixed an issue where the thoroughfare type in the Thoroughfare field could have been in the wrong position. This occurred only in edge cases

    • DENMARK

      • Improved FormattedAddress in cases with an alphanumeric premise number
      • Improved Thoroughfare and PremiseNumber Parsing.

    • FAROE ISLANDS

      We have updated our data source for Faroe Islands.

      • AdministrativeArea and SubAdministrativeArea now available as part of the new data
      • Improved parsing
      • Incidents of false correction reduced
      • Improved AV12 coding
      • Improved geocoding coverage

    • FINLAND

      We have updated our data source for Finland to a premium governmental source. With this new source comes improved address level coverage, data quality, and improved rooftop geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • Reduced false coding cases
      • SubNationalArea and SubAdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • Rooftop Geocoding now available

    • GERMANY

      • Fixed a few minor cases of misspellings in the locality

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Improved and updated the CountrySubdivisionCode

    • GREECE

      • Fixed an issue where setting OutputScript=Latin could still result in Greek value returned.

    • GUATEMALA

      • Improved thoroughfare and area parsing
      • Improved coding rates in several uncommon scenarios

    • KAZAKHSTAN

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to remove incidents of unnecessary commas

    • LITHUANIA

      • Fixed an issue where the SubAdministrativeArea was unnecessarily being used in the FormattedAddress in the capital of Vilnius for AV22 records

    • NETHERLANDS

      • Improved Parsing
      • Improving coding in several uncommon scenarios

    • MAURITANIA

      • Improved area data to increase matches
      • Postal code no longer returned from input as they are not used

    • NEPAL

      We have improved our source data for Nepal. With this new data source comes an improvement in coding as well as geocoding.

      • Improved AV23 coding
      • SubadministrativeArea now returned
      • DependentLocality and SubNationalArea no longer returned
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • NORWAY

      We have updated our data source for Norway to a premium governmental source. With this new source comes improved address level coverage, data quality, and improved rooftop geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • Improved coding
      • Reduced false coding cases
      • Rooftop Geocoding now available

    • SINGAPORE

      We are happy to announce a new partnership with Singapore Post. We are now partners with the official postal agency and sourcing the best and up to date data.

      • Improved coding rates
      • Updated building data now available
      • PostBox data no longer available
      • DoubleDependentLocality and DependentLocality is no longer available. Singapore is a city state and only the locality of “Singapore” is used.

    • SWITZERLAND

      • Improved matching of locality variations that may be used
      • Improved preferences of the values returned to better match postal data

    • TOGO

      We have updated our data source for Togo as a general improvement.

      • AV24 validation now available in more popular areas

    • TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

      We have improved our data source for Trinidad and Tobago.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • Significant improvement in AV23 coding rates
      • Subnational Area & Administrative Area No Longer Returned In The Response.
      • DependentLocality now available as it is used by the postal agency
      • Invalid PostalCode formats no longer returned

    • TUNISIA

      • Fixed an issue where multiple scripts could be mixed in the response

    • UZBEKISTAN

      We have improved our data source for Uzbekistan.

      • AV23 Thoroughfare level validation now available
      • Improved parsing

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: October 2022

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BELGIUM, CAYMAN ISLANDS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,DENMARK, ERITREA, GEORGIA, JAMAICA, KAZAKHSTAN, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, MOLDOVA, PANAMA, PARAGUAY, SERBIA

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AZERBAIJAN

      We have updated our data source for Azerbaijan. We have improved our street level and house number coverage, as well as improved geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • SubNationalArea now returned for all verified addresses
      • DependentLocality returned when available

    • BELARUS

      We have updated our data source for Belarus. We have improved our street level and house number coverage, as well as improved geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • BELGIUM

      We have updated our data source for Belgium to a premium governmental source. With this new source comes improved address level coverage, data quality, and improved rooftop geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • SubBuilding will now contain the Box, Bus, or Bte data depending on the region of Belgium
      • SubNationalArea and DependentLocality no longer used as per postal data
      • Improved casing of subpremise and box data
      • CountrySubdivisionCode is now return the value tied to the region instead of the province

    • BRAZIL

      • Improved Thoroughfare Parsing

    • CAYMAN ISLANDS

      We have updated our data source for Cayman Islands. We have improved our street level and house number coverage, as well as improved geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • SubAdministrativeArea parsed output now available

    • COLOMBIA

      • Fixed an issue where there could occasionally be a space missing between the premise and subpremise.

    • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

      We have updated our data source for Dominican Republic. We have improved our street level coverage.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • SubAdministrativeArea parsed output no longer available
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • DENMARK

      We have updated our data source for Denmark to a premium governmental source. With this new source comes improved address level coverage, data quality, and improved rooftop geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • Reduced false coding cases
      • DependentLocality now available in certain parts of the country
      • Improved casing of address components

    • ERITREA

      We have updated our data source for Eritera. We have improved our street level coverage and added house number coverage.

      • Capital Asmara City is now under the Administrative Area of Maekel instead of Anseba.

    • FIJI

      • Improved Locality data
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available

    • GEORGIA

      We have updated our data source for Georgia. We have improved our street level coverage, added house number coverage, as well as improved geocoding.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • AdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information
      • Fixed an issue where non-latin data could be returned when requesting OutputScript=Latin

    • GUATEMALA

      • CountrySubdivisionCode has been updated to reflect the new standard using numbers instead of letters.

    • GUYANA

      We have upgraded our data source for Guyana to with added house number coverage.

      • MelissaAddressKey now available

    • ICELAND

      • MelissaAddressKey now available

    • JAMAICA

      We have updated our data source for Jamaica. We have improved our street level coverage.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • ThoroughfareTrailingType now returned in written out form
      • AdministrativeArea no longer returned
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • KAZAKHSTAN

      We have updated our data source for Kazakhstan.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • No longer returning duplicate area information in the Formatted Address
      • DependentLocality no longer used
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • LATVIA

      We have updated our data for Latvia to reflect the new Administrative Area divisions that came into force on July 2021. We have also added Street Level Geocoding for this country.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • SubadministrativeArea no longer used
      • DependentLocality no longer used
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available

    • LITHUANIA

      We have improved our source data for Lithuania. However, with this improved source, we have to temporarily downgrade the geocoding available for this country.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences. The engine now differentiates the FormattedAddress of the capital cities of the 11 regions of the country separate from the non-capital regions.
      • SubadministrativeArea no longer used
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available

    • MOLDOVA

      Unfortunately, the house level data coverage has proven insufficient. We will need to downgrade our coverage for this country to locality level for the time being while we work on acquiring a more reliable data source.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences.

    • NEW CALEDONIA

      • Improved street level coverage
      • Added House number coverage
      • MelissaAddressKey now available

    • PANAMA

      Unfortunately, the house level data coverage has proven insufficient. We will need to downgrade our coverage for this country to thoroughfare level for the time being while we work on acquiring a more reliable data source.

      • Updated the FormattedAddress to better align with postal preferences
      • We can now return DST flag, UTC, and Timezone information

    • PARAGUAY

      • FormattedAddress will now return postal code as entered on input

    • POLAND

      • Improved Thoroughfare Parsing

    • RUSSIA

      • PostOfficeLocation parsed output now available

        • SERBIA

      • Improved data for AdministrativeArea output

      • Fixed an issue where FormattedAddress would occasionally return an incomplete address
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available
      • MelissaAddressKey now available

    • SWITZERLAND

      • Improved Thoroughfare Parsing

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: June 2022

Added

  • Added a new option called IncludeRemnants. This will allow the user to toggle whether to include data identified as a remnant in the address lines. Please reference the documentation for more details.
  • Added a new option called GBExtras to return the UPRN.
  • Added a new option called ExtendedDateTime to provide additional information on time zones and UTC, for both standard and during daylight savings.
  • Added a new feature to allow the user to calculate the relative time at the output address. This takes into account whether they observes daylight savings as well as the time periods when daylight savings is observed in that location. This new feature is currently in BETA but available to try for all users.

Changed

  • Improved recognition of more country names in other languages other than English and the native country name.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • Due to EIRCode licensing restrictions, Credit users will no longer have access to Ireland as it uses premium EIR Codes that must be licensed from the postal provider. Ireland will now only be available to regular subscription users who have filled out a license agreement we must have on file as mandated by EIRCode.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where some United States territories may have an incorrect DST (Daylight Savings Time) flag.

Security

  • None

3.0.1.167

Formerly: 3.0.1.167 - March 2022 Update

Released on: March 2022

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, AUSTRIA, CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC, FRANCE, FRENCH POLYNESIA, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY, KYRGYZSTAN, MALDIVES, NETHERLANDS, RUSSIA, SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, SPAIN, SUDAN, TONGA, UKRAINE

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the thoroughfare level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • SubNationalArea is no longer used.

    • AUSTRIA

      We are happy to announce a new partnership between Melissa and Austria Post. With this update, users will now have access to official postal data from Austria Post. Austria has one of the most complex address formats in which there can be up to 4 numbers in the delivery address line.

      • AV25 Sub-premise level verification is now available
      • SubAdministrativeArea field is no longer returned as the area and has been normalized to postal data standards
      • Will return AddressType=T if a Tür (door number) is expected
      • Rooftop level geocoding is now available

    • CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC

      We have revamped Central Africa Republic with a new data source and new engine.

      • Postal code no longer echoed from input to output because this is a country that does not use postal codes
      • Greatly decreased over-aggressive false coding

    • FRANCE

      • Fixed a bug where the invalid input house number could be mapped to a building number and the house number changed.

    • FRENCH POLYNESIA

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the thoroughfare level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • We have re-slotted the area fields being returned to better match the country and to better align with other countries:
        • SubNationalArea field is now returned
        • SubAdministrativeArea field is no longer returned
      • More consistent area data are used

    • GERMANY

      • Packstation addresses will now be classified as PO Box data and the parsed values returned in the parsed PostBox fields instead of Thoroughfare fields
      • Better distinction between Postfach as Packstation addresses considered by the engine during matching
      • Postfach addresses with imbedded spaces now handled correctly
      • Fixed issue where sometimes diacritics could be returned when OutputScript is set to Latin.

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Fixed an issue where a dependent locality in the input could get incorrectly tagged as a building and repeated in the output.
      • Fixed an issue where an Organization in the input could get tagged as a building while the engine appends an identical Organization in the output, resulting the in the same Organization value being in the output twice.
      • Improved our matching criteria for Organization Names by better identifier words (like Co, Ltd, etc) that should not be used as part of the fuzzy match.
      • Fixed an issue where some rare postal codes formats would result in the house number not appearing in the output
      • Fixed an issue where it was possible for the Remnants fields to contain carriage returns
      • Decreased the possibility of false coding

    • ITALY

      • Improved our data by adding more input variations around Italian numbers
      • Improved parsing for AV12 addresses

    • KYRGYZSTAN

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the premise level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • FormattedAddress changed to closer match postal preferences. For example, Postal code and Locality are no longer on the same line.

    • MALDIVES

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the thoroughfare level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • Altered FormattedAddress to better match postal preferences. For example, Postal code and Locality are no longer on the same line.

    • NETHERLANDS

      • Fixed an issue where the house number was sometimes parsed into subpremise number
      • Decreased the incidents of false coding where the engine would match the address to a different thoroughfare

    • RUSSIA

      We have made a change to the underlying data source for Russia as well as the engine. This change has been in the works for a long time. Unfortunately, the release of this country is loosely timed with the horrible invasion of Ukraine, which we thoroughly condemn.

      • Subpremise information is now available in our new source and AV25 coding is now available.
      • SubNationalArea parsed field no longer used
      • FormattedAddress has been updated to better match postal preferences
      • Reduced occurrence of cases where FormattedAddress is returned empty
      • Parsed PostOfficeLocation data is available
      • Abbreviations of thoroughfare types now used as per postal preference

    • SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the thoroughfare level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • SubNationalArea no longer being used.

    • SPAIN

      • Improving parsing for AV12 and AE01 addresses

    • SUDAN

      • Improved the administrative area data for the country
      • Improving matching and coding in the country

    • TONGA

      We have downgraded this country to a locality level (AV-2) country due to a loss in quality of the thoroughfare level data.

      • Country moved to AV2 due to poor available data and false coding issue
      • We have re-slotted the area fields being returned to better match the country and to better align with other countries:
        • SubNationalArea field now returned
        • Dependent Locality no longer being returned
      • More consistent area data being used

    • UKRAINE

      We have made a change to the underlying data source for Ukraine as well as the engine. This change has been in the works for a long time. Unfortunately, the release of this country is loosely timed with the horrible invasion of Ukraine,- which we thoroughly condemn.

      • Dependent Locality parsed field no longer used
      • FormattedAddress has been updated to better match postal preferences
      • Reduced the cases where the area is repeated multiple times in the Formatted Address
      • Abbreviations of thoroughfare types now used as per postal preference
      • Reduced cases where FormattedAddress could be returned with a blank value

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: January 2022

January 2022 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Timezone information update

    We have made an update to our timezone information. Our new timezone names are more standardized and region specific rather than country specific. With this new data, it will be easier to figure out the timezone region and there are less values to account for. Here are a few examples:

    Old Timezonename New Timezonename
    Europe/Berlin Central European Time
    Europe/Paris Central European Time
    Asia/Dubai Gulf Standard Time
    Africa/Johannesburg South African Standard Time

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BRAZIL, CANADA, CUBA, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • BRAZIL

      We have revamped Brazil with a new data source and new engine. The main reason for this switch was to cut down on overaggressive changes. You may see a slightly lower coding rate with this new engine but we believe the benefit of better quality and lower false changes is well worth it.

      • Much lower aggressiveness of the engine to change the address completely in order to code the address.
      • The source data now more closely matches the postal authority for the country.
      • CountrySubdivisionCode now available
      • MelissaAddressKey now available
      • UTC, DST, and Timezone now available
      • Improved Parsing
      • Better standardization of parsed premise and subpremise types

    • CANADA

      • Updated and improve logic for returning AV25 Result if the address has a subpremise that is expected in the source. An extra suite for an address that does not expect any suites will still return AV24.
      • Fixed an issue where a few Canadian city names that contained a dash were not verifying.

    • CUBA

      We have revamped Cuba with a new data source and new engine.

      • Improved coding rate
      • Less false coding
      • Our address output now more closely matches to the preferred postal format for the country

    • FRANCE

      We are proud to announce that we are now fully using official La Poste France postal address data. We have previously been using official La Poste Cedex information. However, we now have updated the rest of the database with full official postal data. Compared to our previous source, there is a very small percentage of changes, but we are now using data that is officially produced by the postal authority in France. The points below are the main changes with this update:

      • Improved building information
      • Improved address information in very rural areas of France
      • More precise house number data

    • GERMANY

      • Tuned engine to be a little less aggressive when the postal code and the locality do not match the source data
      • In a few cases, we have modified the return locality to close match the postal preferred version if the postal prefer version contained parenthesis.
      • Improved coding thoroughfares that are very similar to each other, resulting in AE05 – Multiple Match errors in the past.
      • Improving matching for non-standard abbreviated thoroughfare types
      • Improved handling of addresses where the premise number and thoroughfare are in reverse order, contains unexpected delimiters or parenthesis
      • Improved parsing of AV12 partially coded addresses
      • Added additional areas in English that can be recognized

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Improved detection of some less common thoroughfare trailing types.
      • Fixed an issue where some addresses in the Durham region incorrectly labelled Durham as the locality.

    • NETHERLANDS

      We have done a major review and revamp of our Netherlands engine.

      • Fixed an issue where a subpremise value that is not expected can override the premise number value.
      • Improved recognition and parsing of a subpremiselevel value like “hoog” or “Huis” in the address
      • Fixed a bug where the postal code value can be identified as a remnant value and added to the beginning of the address
      • Fixed a bug where sometimes, an extra unnecessary “e” can be added to the subpremiselevel output.
      • Improving handling of address inputs where locality is sent in via address lines and contains a space followed by two alpha characters.
      • General improvement in parsing unparsed address inputted via address lines.
      • Improving handling of addresses that contain both a street address and a post office box.
      • Improved detection of Organization names in the address lines.
      • Fixed an issue where on rare occasions part of the input address would be missing from the output.
      • Improved handling of extra unexpected information in the address line.
      • Improved address parsing for addresses that do not fully code

    • SPAIN

      • Improved recognition and handling of thoroughfare types in the Catalonia region that differ from the rest of the country

    • UNITED STATES

      • Fixed an issue where multiple PO Boxes in the input could cause a engine crash
      • Fixed an issue where in some cases, “BLV” was not being corrected to “BLVD” and recognized as a thoroughfare trailing type
      • Fixed an issue where if the input had multiple subpremise values (which are not valid), the engine sometimes mixes the values from the two subpremises

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: October 2021

October 2021 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTALIA, CANADA, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY, SINGAPORE, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA
      • Fixed a bug where it was possible to return a non-decimal and non-blank latitude and longitude value.
    • CANADA
      • Improved the handling of duplicate address information. Please see examples in the notes for United States for more details.
    • GERMANY
      • Fixed an issue where two different thoroughfares which has the same abbreviations would get matched to one another.
    • GREAT BRITAIN
      • Improved parsing of partially coded records
      • Improved Great Britain parsing
      • Fixed an issue where an address coded to AE05 – Multiple Match error would still return a valid AddressKey (UDPRN) and AddressType. This should not have been returned as we cannot fully verify the address.
    • ITALY
      • Refined our matching logic to reduce matching thoroughfares that are very similar but in reality different thoroughfares. This is a logic especially applied to Italy because they have no many very similar thoroughfare names.
    • MEXICO
      • Changed the AA value from DF to CDMX
    • SINGAPORE
      • Improved recognition of subpremise types
      • Improved input variation handling
      • Fixed an issue where an address coded to AE05 – Multiple Match error would still return a valid AddressKey (UDPRN) and AddressType. This should not have been returned as we cannot fully verify the address.

    • UNITED STATES

      • Major improvement in the handling of duplicate address data. Our engine will now look at the additional lines of input and if it detects that they contain only duplicate address information, that whole line will be removed. However, if there are other significant pieces of data in the additional lines, we will err of the side of caution and leave the input there as additional information.

      Example where A2 would be removed:

      A1: 12345 Main St
A2: Main Street, Dallas Texas
Locality: Dallas
AdministrativeArea: TX
PostalCode: 34521

      With the example above, if A2 were something like these, they would not be removed:

      A2: Main Street Dentist
A2: Dallas Real Estate

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where AE01 – General Error errors would incorrectly put parsed values in Building.

Security

  • None

Released on: August 2021

August 2021 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • One of the main focuses of this update is improved parsing, especially thoroughfare parsing. When we code an address, we are very confident in the parsed results that is returned back to the user. However, when we do not code the address, we will make a best attempt parse and do not always return results. In this update, we have focused on improving and returning the parsed results for addresses that do not code, specifically AE01 and AE05. There is still more room for improvement and we will continue to work on improving parsing, but we believe this update provides a massive improvement of parsed results.

    • We have worked to cut down on address records that could take more than one second to verify, typically with a lot of junk or garbage data.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, HONG KONG, INDIA, JAPAN, KOREA, SINGAPORE, SPAIN, SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRIA

      • Improved speed for more complex inputs that could take longer than normal
      • Will now return the first number of a multi-number address in the subpremiselevel.

      For example, if you have an address such as Schulgasse 10/1/35, we will return:

      PremisesNumber: 10
SubPremisesNumber: 1
SubPremisesLevelNumber: 35

    • FRANCE

      • Fixed an issue where a small number of records returned with a non-preferred version of the thoroughfare instead of the preferred version
      • Updated the CountrySubDivisionCode values to the more standard FR-## version.

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • We have improved our matching engine to recognize more possible patterns, especially with addresses containing multiple sub-premises.
      • Improved the address format of records where the source data has a subbuilding that behaves more as a subpremise instead.
      • Improved coding of RoyalMail Multi-res records.
      • Updated the CountrySubDivisionCode value to be more accurate.

    • HONG KONG

      • Improved speed for more complex inputs that could take longer than normal

    • INDIA

      We have been working on acquiring better more up to date data for India for some time. We also wanted to address the issue of over-aggressiveness due to the spotty nature of source data in India. To that end, we have completely redone India with new data and matching engine.

      • Improved FormattedAddress to more closely match postal standards
      • Decreased over-aggressiveness and false coding
      • Improved parsing

    • JAPAN

      • Fixed some cases where an invalid address would partially code to the locality (AV12). They now correctly return AE01.
      • Fixed the CountrySubDivisionCode value returns for administrative area Shizuoka.

    • KOREA

      • Cut down on records that could take more than 1 second. A few long single line addresses may be affected.

    • PERU

      • Cut down on records that could take more than 1 second. A few long single line addresses may be affected.
      • Fixed the CountrySubDivisionCode value returns for administrative area Lima.

    • SINGAPORE

      • Improved speed for more complex inputs that could take longer than normal

    • SPAIN

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.
      • Fixed an issue where some records could have returned an empty locality.
      • Improved data where some data with accents were corrupted from the data source

    • SWITZERLAND

      We have updated our source data for Switzerland to use data that more closely matches Swiss Post. The changes you see in this country are derived from this data change. The new data is better and more official than the data previously used.

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.
      • Improved FormattedAddress to more closely match official postal standards in less common scenarios.
      • SubNationalArea and SubAdministrativeArea are no longer returned as they are not included in official data.
      • Improved Thoroughfare parsing
      • Locality and alias locality data have been improved

    • UNITED STATES

      • Improve data returned in the SubAdministrativeArea (County Name) for some addresses that were on the border of two counties.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where AV24 was sometimes also returned with AE11 due to inconsistency of source data.

Security

  • None

3.0.1.151

Formerly: 3.0.1.151 - March 2021 Update

Released on: March 2021

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We have made a standardization to the way we treat FormatteAddress and CountryOfOrigin. The default functionality is described below:

      • If the CountryOfOrigin is not set, the FormatteAddress will contain the destination country name at the end*.
      • If CountryOfOrigin is set and the same as the destination country, the FormattedAddress will not contain the country name at the end.
      • If CountryOfOrigin is set and different than the destination country, the FormattedAddress will contain the country name at the end.

    *There is an exception for this item which is US and CA. These countries will not have the country name at the end of FormattedAddress is CountryOfOrigin is not set. This is due to backwards compatibility reasons as the majority of our users use these two countries.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BELGIUM, CANADA, FRANCE, GERMANY, HONG KONG, JAPAN, KOREA, MOROCCO, NETHERLANDS, SINGAPORE, SPAIN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • BELGIUM

      • Added some improvement for typo handling

    • CANADA

      • Improved handling of AV24 vs AV25 codes.

      • Previously:

        • Case #1) 12-345 Main St -> AV24
        • Case #2) 345 Main St Ste 12 -> AV25

      Now, we will identify both cases as AV25.

    • FRANCE

      • We have made CEDEX data available now in the database. CEDEX addresses are business addresses that have special postal codes and address data.

    • GERMANYS

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.
      • Improved recognition and handling of typos and misspellings.

    • HONG KONG

      • We have changed our data source to use the official land registry data for Hong Kong. This data includes the building information for addresses.
      • We have made changes to our engine to try and cut down on over-aggressive coding.
      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.

    • ITALY

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.
      • We have added additional variation data to improve coding rates.
      • We have sourced and added additional data for the South Tyrol region that often uses German versions of the address.

    • JAPAN

      • Improved matching of addresses that are all in one line.

    • KOREA

      • We have transitioned to a new data provider for Korea we believe contains better overall data for the country.
      • Formatted Address now is closer sync with postal preference.
      • Less overly aggressive false coding.
      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase numbers are now available.

    • MOROCCO

      • We have made improvements to this country to reduce occurrences of false coding.

    • NETHERLANDS

      • Corrected an issue where AC03 (Locality change) was being incorrectly reported.

    • SINGAPORE

      • We have improving handling of building data in Singapore. We will now only append the building information if we do not detect the input as already having building information. This is because we found the user often had correct and desired data but that was slightly different than the value in the database.

    • SPAIN

      • We have improved our pattern matching for better recognition of subpremise patterns. This will improve coding rates.

    • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

      • Fixed a data issue for the Sharjah region.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: November 2020

November 2020 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We are also working on upgrading our infrastructure and data source relationships so that we can start providing monthly updates for a number of countries. We expect this to be available first half of 2021. Some countries we expect to roll out with for Monthly updates are: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Netherlands.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BELARUS, COSTA RICA, KYRGYZSTAN, MACAO, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, MOZAMBIQUE, SENEGAL, TAIWAN, VIETNAM

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase values are now available
      • Removed some house numbers that were invalid
      • Subpremise values with are single letters are now capitalized
      • SubAdministrative Area data was deemed to be too inconsistent and no longer returned. This value is not used in the mailing address.

    • BELARUS

      • Postal code verification improved

    • CAMEROON

      • Data has been updated to a more comprehensive thoroughfare level data
      • Address format adjusted to close match country specifications

    • CHILE

      • Fixed area slotting for Region Nuble

    • COSTA RICA

      • We have updated the data source to be one that is much more comprehensive in the country. This data source does not have house numbers while the previous one did but has much better thoroughfare coverage throughout the country.

    • FRANCE

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase values are now available
      • Cleaned up some of the subadministrativea area, administrative area, and subnational area values for addresses near boundary borders
      • AV25 coding now possible

    • KYRGYZSTAN

      • Improvement in verification results with locality and thoroughfare levels.

    • SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

      • Updated this country to thoroughfare level (AV-3) address coverage and Thoroughfare level Geocoding (G-3) coverage

    • SINGAPORE

      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase values are now available
      • Updated values for Dependent Locality and Double Dependent Localities (These are not used in the mailing address)

    • MACAO

      • More addresses can now be verified to the house number level.

    • MOZAMBIQUE

      • Data updated to a new source with postal code information and engine revamped for this new data.
      • Decreased the chances of false coding to the wrong address

    • TAIWAN

      • Improved matching engine for more AV24 level coding
      • Increase number of rooftop level geocoding
      • AV22 for incomplete or not fully validated address no longer returned. We will instead return AV12 if the locality level data is correct but the full mailing address is not correct.
      • Decreased level of false coding

    • VIETNAM

      • We have changed to a new data source and adapted our engine.
      • MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase values are now available
      • Improved Postal Code coverage
      • Less over-aggressive coding that will cause the engine to match to the incorrect address. This may result in some previous matches that happen to be correct to no longer match, but we believe that it is better overall to decrease false coding.

      • Results will now be in Vietnamese instead of transliterated Vietnamese. This is a much closer match to the data expected in the country.

        • For example:

        Vietnamese: Phố Lê Đại

        Transliterated Vietnamese: Pho Le Dai

      • AV22 for incomplete or not fully validated address no longer returned. We will instead return AV12 if the locality level data is correct but the full mailing address is not correct.

      • Formatted Address updated to be closer to specification expected for the country

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: August 2020

August 2020 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We have worked to improvement the speed of edge cases in our engine. The number of records that could trigger a hang in the engine should be greatly diminished. If you run into a record that takes a long time to process, please submit it to Melissa.
    • We have a new BETA version of the web service with new additional outputs. We are making the switch to this new version the week of September 7th. Please review the information about this switch here: https://www.melissa.com/quickstart-guides/global-address-update . This is only newly added inputs and outputs, there should be no compatibility problems.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ALAND ISLANDS, CANADA, CURACAO, BARBADOS, IVORY COAST, NETHERLANDS, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, SRI LANKA, TURKEY, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ÅLAND ISLANDS

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • ARGENTINA

      • Improved the area alignment for Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires AdministrativeArea.

    • CANADA

      • Improved handling of Canadian addresses that start with the format of ###-#### and is all in address lines. Before, the engine would confuse this valid but rare subpremise number and house number format for a phone number. This would only happen if postal code and locality input fields were not used.

    • CURAÇAO

      • Improving handling of address1 only input handling.

    • BARBADOS

      • Improved our thoroughfare level data. You should expect much more AV23 than before.
      • Improved geocoding

    • CÔTE D'IVOIRE (IVORY COAST)

      • Improved our thoroughfare level data. You should expect much more AV23 than before.
      • Improved geocoding

    • NETHERLANDS

      • We have switched to a new premium level data source. This new data source contains highly accurate street level information and also new subpremise information. Additionally, it also includes highly accurate rooftop level geocoding.
      • Due to the addition of subpremise level data, you should start receiving many more AV25 Result codes.
      • SubPremise information and parsed fields will now be populated for AV25 records.
      • We will return rooftop level geocodes and GS05 for almost all coded records.
      • FormattedAddress reviewed and ensured to match postal agency specifications. This includes double spaces beween the locality and postal codes.
      • In the BETA version, DeliveryIndicator is now available for Netherlands.
      • In the BETA version, MelissaAddressKey and MelissaAddressKeyBase is now available for Netherlands.

    • NIGERIA

      • Improved our data source to include much more extensive thoroughfare level data.
      • You should expect much more AV23 than before.
      • Improved our engine to cut down on false coding
      • Improved Geocoding

    • NORWAY

      • Updated our area values to match the new administrative region revamp instituted by the Norway government in 2020.

    • SRI LANKA

      • Improved our thoroughfare level data. You should expect much more AV23 than before.
      • Improved geocoding

    • TURKEY

      • We have added a new high quality data source and revamped our engine for that source.
      • Subpremise level data with Building data and AV25 coding now available.
      • Increased number of GS05 rooftop level geocoding.
      • Reviewed and revamped Formatted Address to ensure match with postal agency standards.

    • UNITED STATES

      • Changed handing of two unique zip codes (12345 and 88888) based on customer data. We will no longer allow any and all input to code as valid (as per CASS specifications) but require a recognized street. This will improve data quality as we see many fake inputs using these postal codes.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.0.1.150

Formerly: 3.0.1.150 - April 2020 Update

Released on: April 2020

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Improved handling of postal codes for AV-2 (Locality level) countries.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ARMENIA, CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, CZECH REPUBLIC, DOMINICA, ETHOPIA, GREAT BRITAIN, GABON, GRENADA, GUERNSEY, ITALY, ISLE OF MAN, JAPAN, JERSEY, KUWAIT, RWANDA, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, SLOVENIA, SPAIN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ARMENIA

      • Improved data to increase AV23 and AV24 coding
      • Addresses with valid localities but invalid addresses will no longer code to AV22

    • CANADA

      • Removed the comma between the locality and administrative area in the Formatted Address to be more in line with the formal address guidelines published by CanadaPost.

    • CAPE VERDE ISLANDS

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • CZECH REPUBLIC

      • Improved our data to put the regions of Prague (example: Praha 10) into the locality as expected instead of the dependent locality.

    • DOMINICA

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • ETHOPIA

      • Improved detection and coding of localities

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Fixed a bug where some addresses entered with a postal code without spaces could code to an incorrect address. A small percentage of addresses were affected.
      • Fixed an issue where the British territories of Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man had the dependent locality slotted as the locality.

    • GABON

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • GRENADA

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • GUERNSEY

      • Fixed an issue where the dependent locality was being used as the locality. This would not have significantly altered the address as the locality and the country name are the same.

    • ITALY

      • Changed the aggressiveness of the engine to lower the possibility of changing the address from the intended location in an effort to code the address.

    • ISLE OF MAN

      • Fixed an issue where the dependent locality was being used as the locality. This would not have significantly altered the address as the locality and the country name are the same.

    • JAPAN

      • Major data update.
      • Slightly improved coding accuracy.

    • JERSEY

      • Fixed an issue where the dependent locality was being used as the locality. This would not have significantly altered the address as the locality and the country name are the same.

    • KUWAIT

      • We have adjusted the Formatted Address to better fit in country postal standards
      • We have changed data sources to one with better coverage of the thoroughfares, dependent localities, and postal codes while removing the incomplete house numbers. This will move the country from AV-4 (House number) to AV-3 (Thoroughfare) but we believe this is an overall improvement.
      • Improved coverage of PO Boxes.

    • RWANDA

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

      • After review, we found that the thoroughfare level data is not at a level to justify the AV-3 (Thoroughfare level) classification and can incorrectly code legitimate thoroughfare. We are moving this country to AV-2 (Locality level) while we work on finding better data.

    • SLOVENIA

      • We have added Interpolated Rooftop (G-4) latitude and longitude information back for this country.
      • We have added an additional area level available to the user in the Administrative Area.

    • SPAIN

      • Major data update related to recent election/census activity in the country.
      • Significant improvement in the number of AV24 coding.
      • Improved the number of rooftop latitude and longitude points by around 8%.

    • VATICAN

      • Removed duplicate Administrative Area that was always the same as the Locality

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where some AV-2 countries returned the country code in the country name field.

Security

  • None

Released on: February 2020

February 2020 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We had to combine the 2019Q4 and 2020Q1 update due to data source provider issues. However, this update includes a significant and extensive update for Great Britain. Please make sure to review the Great Britain section.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      COLOMBIA, GREAT BRITAIN, ISRAEL, JAPAN, MONGOLIA, MYANMAR, NICARUGUA, SYRIA, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UZBEKISTAN, YEMEN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • COLOMBIA

      • Moved Building information to AddressLine2 instead of the same line as the thoroughfare.
      • Now using a dash in the premise number to separate values instead of a space.

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • We have been working on a major update for Great Britain and are pleased to be able to provide them to you in this update. This update should represent a major improvement in quality and feature set.
      • We have added the following new data sets from Royal Mail at no change in cost for our users:
      • Not Yet Build – Addresses in the planning or construction phase
      • Multiple Residence – Individual dwellings in multiple occupancy buildings that share a front door
      • BFPO –British forces personnel serving overseas
      • We have incorporated a new geolocation source with much more accurate rooftop points for Great Britain. This data is not available from Royal Mail.
      • We have made changes in the Administrative Area field. Administrative Area is not used in the mailing address. We will be following the Royal Mail Unitary Authority Name administrative county where available.
      • We are currently working on infrastructure to move GB to a monthly update cycle. Additionally, we are also working on the ability to expose additional UK elements like UDPRN/DeliveryPointSuffix.

    • ISRAEL

      • Modified the Formatted Address and address lines to match in country postal rules.
      • Building and subpremise information now returned at the end of address1 instead of in a new line as per our country research.
      • Engine will now preserve valid 7 digit postal codes
      • Post office box values now returns as PO Box instead of Ta Do'ar

    • JAPAN

      • We have done a major re-configuration for Japan. Our previous data source for Japan is no longer available so we have acquired a new equally good source.
      • We have turned down the aggressiveness of the engine that would change the premise number value in order to code the address. This will result in more AV13 coding and less AV24 but we believe it is better this way.
      • Will now return a 〒Prefix for the postal code in the Formatted Address as per in country postal standards.
      • Slight variations in area parsing for new data source
      • Some changes in the makeup of the address lines using the deliverylines option.
      • Japan uses both full width and half width numbers, the half width version being the one that most latin languages are used to. To bring Japan in line with our other countries and more consistent in its behavior, we will using full width numerals in the Formatted Address if the OutputScript is set to Native and half width numerals if the OutputScript is set to Latin. If it is set to Match, we will detect the width from the input. For Address lines and parsed fields will always use half width as they are designed for database storage, comparison, and matching.

    • MONGOLIA

      • Changed from AV23 to AV22 country. The street data available was too out of date and preventing legitimate locality verification. Working on finding and evaluating new providers.

    • MYANMAR

      • Change in configuration to keep more input data on output
      • Updated area vales

    • NICARAGUA

      • Changed configuration to recognize locality for more records

    • SYRIA

      • Changed from AV23 to AV22 country. The thoroughfare information was dated and unreliable given the current state of the country.

    • TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

      • Change in configuration to keep more input data on output
      • Updated area vales

    • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

      • Reduced the rate of false coding. May result in slightly lower matching rates.
      • Improved matching and parsing of house number and Villa information.

    • UZBEKISTAN

      • Changed from AV23 to AV22 country. The street data available was too out of date and preventing legitimate locality verification. Working on finding and evaluating new providers.
    • YEMEN
      • Changed configuration to recognize locality for more records

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: October 2019

October 2019 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • This update is considered a partial update as we are still waiting for updated data from some of our sources. This update combined with the next update, scheduled to arrive before the end of the year, should cover all countries

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ARGENTINA, BELIZE, CHRISTMAS ISLANDS, COMOROS, COOK ISLANDS, GAMBIA, GREAT BRITAIN, JAPAN, JORDAN, LAOS, PORTUGAL, URUGUAY

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ARGENTINA

      • We have made a number of changes to better correspond to the postal preferences of the country:
        • Formatted Address has been slightly modified
        • The Locality and Postal code are now returned on separate address lines
        • Premise Numbers will be returned with a prefix of “N°”
        • SubPremise, Building, SubBuilding information now returned at the end of the address lines.
      • We have tweaked our matching engine to better avoid false positive matches that will incorrectly change the address.

    • BELIZE

      • We have re-evaluated our data source for Laos and decided that it was not good enough to justify being an AV-3 country. We have removed the spotty thoroughfare data and improved our locality data so that more records can be verified at AV22 instead of returning an error. We are looking for better data to use in the near future.

    • CHRISTMAS ISLANDS

      • Improved our locality matching

    • COMOROS

      • Improved our locality matching

    • COOK ISLANDS

      • Improved our locality matching

    • GAMBIA

      • We have re-evaluated our data source for Laos and decided that it was not good enough to justify being an AV-3 country. We have removed the spotty thoroughfare data and improved our locality data so that more records can be verified at AV22 instead of returning an error. We are looking for better data to use in the near future.

    • GERMANY

      • Fixed an issue where some Postfache and postal code values were not available

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Minor improvement in matching rate

    • JAPAN

      • We have fixed an issue where changes to the premise number did not trigger an AC20 change code.
      • We have fixed an issue where the ISO 3166-2 Country Sub Division Code of JP-23 was not returned

    • JORDAN

      • We have removed some matching logic that caused false or over-aggressive matches

    • LAOS

      • We have re-evaluated our data source for Laos and decided that it was not good enough to justify being an AV-3 country. We have removed the spotty thoroughfare data and improved our locality data so that more records can be verified at AV22 instead of returning an error. We are looking for better data to use in the near future.

    • PORTUGAL

      • Formatted Address is now returned in all capital letters based on the preferences of the CTT.
      • We have turned down the aggressiveness of the engine to lower the possibility of coding to the wrong address.
      • We have switched our data source to one that we believe is better aligned with the official CTT data.

    • URUGUAY

      • A hyphen is returned between postal code and locality as per postal preference
      • Sub Premise information returned at the end of the street address as per postal preference

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: August 2019

August 2019 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • This update is later than usual due to the delay in the last build. We expect the next build to get back on track with the regular schedule.
    • We have changed the change code logic so that one input cannot be used against two output values in terms of the change code. This would apply in cases where two areas like the locality and administrative area are the same. If the input contained that value, in the past, we would not report any change code. However, now that single input will only be counted against a single output, and we would add a change code for appending the 2nd area value.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BULGARIA, BERMUDA, COLOMBIA, EGYPT, FRANCE, ESTONIA, HAITI, HUNGARY, ITALY, NICARAGUA, PHILIPPINES, QATAR, ROMANIA, THAILAND, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ARGENTINA

      • Improved the alignment of the address area values

    • AUSTRALIA

      • Improved pattern recognition to increase coding rate

    • BULGARIA

      • Made an effort to decrease the number of false positive coding. This may result in some addresses coding before that do not now but we believe the overall quality is better now.
      • Improved parsing result
      • Standardized use of abbreviated thoroughfare types

    • BERMUDA

      • We have acquired and incorporated a better data source that includes thoroughfares and house numbers. The quality of the thoroughfares has also increased. Overall it is a dramatic improvement in the coding quality of this country.
      • Improved parsing
      • Administrative Area no longer returned for this country. It is unnecessary for a country of this size.
      • Improved Formatted Address structure

    • COLOMBIA

      • Improved recognition of addresses without thoroughfare leading types

    • EGYPT

      • Changed Formatted Address to better conform to country standards

    • FRANCE

      • We have standardized the latitude and longitude to 6 digits after the decimal to bring it in line with other countries. The 7th digit of the latitude/longitude corresponds to a variance of around 11 millimeters, which is insignificant for the use of coordinates in addressing.

    • ESTONIA

      • Improved coding quality
      • Improved address structure in Formatted Address

    • HUNGARY

      • Improved coding accuracy and thoroughfare name recognition
      • Improved recognition of real life address patterns, especially ones involving a period in the input premise number

    • ITALY

      • Improved recognition of abbreviations for better coding accuracy

    • PHILIPPINES

      • We have greatly improved our address pattern recognition for the Philippines so that our coding accuracy has increase dramatically.
      • Decreased cases of false coding
      • Will no longer return AV22 for bad address
      • Improved Parsing

    • QATAR

      • Decreases cases of false coding. This could affect addresses that have previously coded but overall we believe the quality is better
      • Moved Building information to before thoroughfare but on the same line in accordance to our research

    • ROMANIA

      • Greatly increase our coding accuracy and the return of AV24 results.
      • Restructured the Formatted Address in accordance with preference by the Romanian post office.
      • We are returning the Locality in all capitals in accordance with postal preference.

    • THAILAND

      • Improved detection of dependent locality

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: April 2019

April 2019 Update

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • This update had been delayed due to some issues with getting data updates from several of our providers. Melissa apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused and we are working to prevent delays like this in the future.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BENIN, BOTSWANA, BURKINA FASO, BURUNDI, CAMEROON, JORDAN, MACEDONIA, MALAYSIA, MALTA, PERU, SERBIA, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • BENIN

      • Decreased false address correction

    • BOTSWANA

      • Decreased false corrections
      • Improved address recognition and coding rates

    • BURKINA FASO

      • Decreased false address correction

    • BURUNDI

      • Greatly reduced false address corrections
      • Improved address pattern recognition

    • CAMEROON

      • Improving coding rates
      • Decreased false address correction

    • JORDAN

      • Greatly improved our address recognition engine and coding rates
      • Improved parsing
      • More accurate Formatted Address positioning and casing

    • MACEDONIA

      • Improved address recognition

    • MALAYSIA

      • We have made an effort to decrease the false positive that would change the address to a different one than intended in coding. This may result in some addresses not coding which did before, but we believe the tradeoff for better overall quality is worth it.
      • Improved general parsing and sub-premise level parsing
      • Improved change code detection

    • MALTA

      • Decreased false address correction
      • Improved parsing

    • PERU

      • Improving pattern recognition and coding rates
      • Improved parsing
      • We have researched and more closely aligned our output to postal authority documentation
      • Improving handling of sub-premise values
      • Addresses with errors no longer return AV22

    • SERBIA

      • We have moved to a new and improved data set that includes the most current postal code data for Serbia. This is the PAK (Post Office Location Code) which we are now appending to the address.
      • This new updated data set does not include geocoding, so latitude and longitude is currently not available. We are working hard on adding this information in on a future update.
      • Improved parsing of the address
      • Improving casing of the Formatted Address

    • UNITED STATES

      • Increased the number of addresses in our database that are real physical addresses but not serviced by the USPS of subpremise values based on Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos documentation

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.0.1.148

Formerly: 3.0.1.148 - December 2018 Update

Released on: December 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      CYPRUS, GREECE, LATVIA, LUXEMBOURG, KOREA, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SPAIN, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • CYPRUS

      • Improved address parsed values
      • We have made an effort to decrease the false positive that would change the address to a different one than intended in coding. This may result in some addresses not coding which did before, but we believe the tradeoff for better overall quality is worth it.
      • Based on the Cypus Post, we have fixed the format placement of the premise number in the address.

    • FRENCH GUIANA

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • GUADELOUPE

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • GREECE

      • Improved address parsed values
      • We have made an effort to decrease the false positive that would change the address to a different one than intended in coding. This may result in some addresses not coding which did before, but we believe the tradeoff for better overall quality is worth it.
      • Per preference of Hellenic Post ELTA, locality will be capitalized in the formatted address.

    • LATVIA

      • Improved parsed values
      • As per VAS Latvijas Pasts, we have adjusted the address lines and formatted address to more closely resemble the postal preferred format. Postal code now has the “LV-“ prefix in formatted address.
      • We have made an effort to decrease the false positive that would change the address to a different one than intended in coding. This may result in some addresses not coding which did before, but we believe the tradeoff for better overall quality is worth it.

    • LUXEMBOURG

      • Improved parsed values
      • As per Post Luxembourg, SubNationalArea is no longer used and will not be returned. Locality will be capitalized in FormattedAddress. PostalCode will be prefixed with a “L-“ as per postal preference.
      • Will now return area information based on the thoroughfare name, which can be in French or Luxembourgish.

    • MARTINIQUE

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • MAYOTTE

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • REUNION

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON

      • Improved data source
      • Improved parsing and coding accuracy

    • SLOVAKIA

      • Greatly improved the output parsed values
      • Reduced the number of false positives when coding the address
      • Improved parsing of subpremise information
      • Improved handling of premise number. Will append the town description number to the premise number when available.

    • SLOVENIA

      • Removed extra space value in the address lines after postal code
      • Removed the dependent locality data from the formatted address as per postal standards
      • Improved casing as per postal preference
      • Improved parsing output values

    • SPAIN

      • We have improved the coverage of the country, particular in rural towns
      • We have improved our coding algorithm to decrease the number of false postives
      • Greatly Improved address parse values
      • Improved casing of parsed values
      • Improved casing and handling of subpremise values based on Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos documentation

    • UNITED STATES

      • Added additional addresses into our Non-USPS database of real physical addresses that is not serviced by the USPS.
      • Now will recognize and return back the PMB (Private Mailbox) value in the Address1 line as well as the PostBox field.
      • Fixed the case where if an street address and po box address was in the same input, the position of each address could change depending on if the DELIVERYLINES option was set.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

Released on: September 2018

September 2018 Update

Added

  • We have added additional variations of country names that we recognize.

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We have improved the logic of detecting the country name if it is not in the country input field. This is still not a recommended approach to not have the country input field populated, but we will make a best effort to identify the country name if it is in another part of the address.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      BELGIUM, CROATIA, ITALY, LITHUANIA

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      BELGIUM, CROATIA, ITALY, LITHUANIA

  • Country Specific Updates

    • BELGIUM

      • Belgium has three official languages. We are not returning the language of the full address based on the language of the input Thoroughfare. In the past, there was potential for the thoroughfare value to be in one language and the locality to be in another language.
      • Improved parsed value

    • CROATIA

      • Improved parsed values
      • Improved casing of thoroughfare types
      • Improved casing of attached characters in Premise and Subpremise numbers
      • Removed the dependent locality from returning in address lines or formatted address as they are not normally used.

    • ITALY

      • We have revamped our Italian data and engine from the ground up. We have acquired and integrated more accurate address and geocoding data as well as performed extensive research into the country’s postal standards.
      • As per Poste Italiane SpA’s strong preference that the address on mail pieces are written in all capital letters, we have changed our FormattedAddress field to contain all capital letters as the FormattedAddress is meant to simulate a mailing label. The address lines 1 through 8 are still in title case.
      • We have improved the coding rate while lowering the number of false address changes. To limit the number of false address changes, we may lose a few records that coded before but don’t now. However, the overall accuracy should be significantly improved.
      • We have improved our database and filled in thoroughfare and house numbers for almost all records. This will result in dramatically less AV23 (if we only had the thoroughfare) and AV22 (if we only had the locality) coding.
      • Greatly Improved address parse values
      • Improved casing of parsed values
      • For addresses with both a street address and a po box, we are making the street address the dominant address. The service is only designed to verify a single logical address at a time.

    • LITHUANIA

      • Improved address parse values
      • Improved casing of thoroughfare types

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.0.1.143

Formerly: 3.0.1.143 - July 2018 Update

Released on: July 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • We have revamped our change code system from the ground up, with an emphasis on the AC01 (Postal Code), AC03 (Locality), AC10 (Thoroughfare), and AC20 (House Number) codes. We know that the change code system is not perfect before and not perfect now. However, we have redesigned the infrastructure to allow us to make fixes easier and faster in the future. Please review our result code usage guide for more information:

      http://wiki.melissadata.com/index.php?title=Global_Address_Verification%3AResult_Codes#Change_Code_System

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ALBANIA, ANDORRA, BRAZIL, CANADA, FRANCE, GERMANY, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GREAT BRITAIN, KIRIBATI, LESOTHO, LICHTENSTEIN, MONTENEGRO, NEW ZEALAND, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, SAN MARINO, SOUTH AFRICA, SVALBARD & JAN MAYEN ISLANDS, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNITED STATES

  • Country Specific Updates

    • ALBANIA

      • Fixed issue where one known record would cause the engine to hang
      • Improved parsing logic for increased AV25 coding
      • Improved address format to match in country expectation
      • Improved parsing
      • Improved output consistency

    • ANDORRA

      • Improved handling of full input addresses
      • General coding rate improvement
      • Improvement in geocoding level
      • Improved parsing

    • BRAZIL

      • General coding improvements
      • Improved locality and dependent locality area level slotting
      • Improved diacritic matching for thoroughfares

    • CANADA

      • Fixed a bug where diacritic input could be converted to bad characters in the output for some non-codable addresses.

    • CHINA

      • The country subdivision code values have been updated to a newer of the code. The old version used number (CN-01) while the new version uses letters (CN-SH).

    • FRANCE

      • We have revamped our France data and engine from the ground up. We have reviewed and revamped all of our rules and algorithms as well as performed extensive research into French postal standards. There will be a lot of changes overall, we are very confident that the new engine is superior to the old one. The major changes are:
      • As per La Poste strong preference that the address on mail pieces are written in all capital letters, we have changed our FormattedAddress field to contain all capital letters as the FormattedAddress is meant to simulate a mailing label. The address lines 1 through 8 are still in title case.
      • We have fixed a bug where an arrondissement on input can sometime be duplicated on the output.
      • We have improved the coding rate while lowering the number of false address changes. To limit the number of false address changes, we may lose a few records that coded before but don’t now. However, the overall accuracy should be significantly improved.
      • We have improved our database and filled in thoroughfare and house numbers for almost all records. This will result in dramatically less AV23 (if we only had the thoroughfare) and AV22 (if we only had the locality) coding.
      • Greatly Improved address parse values
      • Improved casing of parsed values
      • For addresses with both a street address and a po box, we are making the street address the dominant address. The service is only designed to verify a single logical address at a time.

    • GERMANY

      • Removed historical but currently invalid PO Box postal code records

    • GHANA

      • Improved general coding accuracy
      • Changed engine to return partial error AV12 instead of AV22 when only locality could be verified but there are additional source data for those areas

    • GIBRALTAR

      • Reclassified the geocoding level to G4 (interpolated rooftop) based on a review of the data and expected coverage
      • Improved Parsing

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Slightly improved coding rates

    • KIRIBATI

      • Improvement in area level detection
      • Improvement in parsing

    • LESOTHO

      • Data quality metric downgraded from AV-4 (premises) to AV-3 (Thoroughfare) after a re-evaluation of the data source

    • LICHTENSTEIN

      • Improved handling of duplicate or extra information
      • Improved parsing

    • MONTENEGRO

      • Improved handling of premise number indicators
      • Improved handling of sub-premise types
      • Improved Parsing

    • NEW ZEALAND

      • Improved handling of addresses with delimiters
      • We have worked to decrease false coding rates. This may result in some addresses that coded before but not now. However, we believe the overall accuracy is improved.
      • Increase number of thoroughfare types that are recognized
      • Improved coding when thoroughfare types are not present
      • Improved handling of duplicate and extra information
      • We are losing access to some sub-premise, po box, and rural postal code delivery data. Premise level data is still available and will remain available.

    • POLAND

      • After research and review of in country postal standards, we are returning the locality in all capital letters in the formatted address, as per postal preference.
      • Improved handling of addresses with delimiters
      • We have worked to decrease false coding rates. This may result in some addresses that coded before but not now. However, we believe the overall accuracy is improved.
      • Improved handling of multi part subpremise like “1A/lok. 1”
      • Added handling of the premise number before the thoroughfare

    • ROMANIA

      • After research and review of country postal standards, we are revising the output format for addresses in Romania from “Building SubBuilding [newline] Thoroughfare Premise” to “Thoroughfare Premise Building SubBuilding”

    • SAN MARINO

      • Improved handling of premise and sub-premise types
      • We have removed sparse old database records with the full postal code for the country. Currently, we have the first 3 characters of the postal code and will assume the remaining digits are valid.
      • Decrease the occurrence of coding to the wrong address.

    • SINGAPORE

      • After research of in country postal standards, we are removing some area level data that is not used for delivery from the address lines and formatted address.
      • Improved parsing and coding ability when the postal code is not present
      • We have decided to not rely so heavily on the postal code. Since the postal code in Singapore is unique to an individual address, we have previously been relying on the postal code almost entirely and could simply replace the entire rest of the address to match the postal code. We have decided to place less emphasis on the postal code and also use the other parts of the address more in the very possible case there is a typo in the postal code. This will decrease our coding rate in the country but will decrease coding to the wrong address, which we consider much worse than not coding. As a work-around, if you enter just the postal code, we will fill in the rest of the address.

    • SOUTH AFRICA

      • Improve handling of inputs with range delimiters
      • Improved handling of duplicate and extra data
      • Improved parsing
      • Our PO Box data has grown too dated to be reliable, so we are converting PO Box coding from AV25 to AV22.

    • SVALBARD & JAN MAYEN ISLANDS

      • Improved area level coding
      • Improved parsing

    • THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

      • General coding improvement
      • Improved parsing
      • Improved thoroughfare detection

    • UNITED STATES

      • Added new pattern recognition for private mailboxes at commercial mail receiving agencies (CMRA). Example: 123 Main Dr Ste 10-123 where Ste 10 is the CMRA and 123 is the private mailbox.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.0.1.143

Formerly: 3.0.1.142 - May 2018 Update

Released on: May 2018

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • General improvement in false AC code detection
    • General improvement in GS03 (Community level) geocoding

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ANDORRA, BRAZIL, CAYMAN ISLANDS, CZECH REPUBLIC, FINLAND, GREECE, ICELAND, JAPAN, KOREA, LATVIA, SAUDI ARABIA, SLOVAKIA, THAILAND

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA

      • Fixed issue where one known record would cause the engine to hang
      • Improved parsing logic for increased AV25 coding

    • BELGIUM

      • Fixed error that resulted in CountrySubDivisionCode of BE-VWV not always returning.

    • BRAZIL

      • Addition of PostBox numbers to the data to increase verification rates of po boxes

    • CANADA

      • Fixed a bug where in rare cases, some invalid characters could be returned in the result.
      • Fixed some rare cases where an AV code would not be returned.
      • Fixed bug where sometimes, the formattedAddress output field would be empty when it was not supposed to be.
      • Fixed issue of correctly identifying thoroughfare trailing type vs thoroughfare leading type

    • CZECH REPUBLIC

      • Improved coding and matching logic to improve coding rates. Now can recognize and correct more addresses to drastically improve the rate of AV24 coding.

    • FINLAND

      • Improved the handling of the two main languages in Finland, Swedish and Finnish. The language used will now be consistent across the full address and will use the thoroughfare as the main decider of which language to use.

    • GERMANY

      • Improved parsing logic

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Improvement in GS05 (rooftop level) geocoding

    • JAPAN

      • Improved data normalization to ensure all parts of the address are verified
      • Improved parsing logic

    • UNITED STATES

      • Improved the return consistency of the AE08 result code (sub-premise number invalid) when an AV14 error is found.
      • Fixed the rare occurrence that the response for a US territory will not be fully populated.
      • Improved the AC code logic for US territories.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with the DeliveryLine option when using a LineSeparator that is the default

Security

  • None

3.0.1.139

Formerly: 3.0.1.139 - December 2017 Update

Released on: December 2017

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • General Bug Fixes
    • Improved the accuracy of changes codes

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All countries except for ANGUILLA , ANTARCTICA, ARGENTINA, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BONAIRE, BOUVET ISLAND, BRAZIL, BULGARIA, CROATIA, DENMARK, DGYPT, FIJI, FINLAND, INDIA, ISREAL, ITALY, JAMAICA, JAPAN, KAZAKHSTAN, SOUTH KOREA, KYRGYZSTAN, LATVIA, MACAO, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, NEPAL, NICARAGUA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PERU, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SAN MARINO, SINT MAARTEN, SOUTH AFRICA, TAIWAN, TURKEY, UKRAINE, URUGUAY, UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA, VITENAM

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ANDORRA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, COLOMBIA, FRANCE, FRENCH POLYNESIA, INDONESIA, IRELAND, LITHUANIA, GREAT BRITAIN, MOROCCO, NEW ZEALAND, UNITED STATES

  • Global Email Object

    • Reference Data Update

      New domains added

  • Global Phone Object

    • Reference Data Update

      All countries

  • Global Name Object

    • Reference Data Update

      Data for Mexico names added to the data file

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA

      • Most of the geocodes in Australia has been reclassified from Rooftop (GS05) to Interpolated Rooftop (GS06). The actual longitude coordinates have not changed and most of the coordinates are effectively at Rooftop level, but due to ranged information in the geocode source, GS06 is the more technically accurate code.
      • Resolved issue where a few good or partially good addresses were returning AE05 – Multiple Match Error
      • Resolved issue that prevented some addresses with spelled out or non-standard level type indicators from verifying
      • Fixed formatting of Formatted Address when a subpremise level is present without a subpremise

    • CANADA

      • Fixed an issue where FormattedAddress was sometimes blank
      • Fixed an issue where diacritic values were occasionally not being outputted correctly when classified by the engine as extra non-address info.

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • The Geocode levels for Great Britain have been re-evaluated and modified. Some previously rooftop level (GS05) has been reclassified as Interpolated Rooftop (GS06). Additionally, many postal code level (GS03) has been reclassified as Interpolated (GS06) when only a few addresses are in the candidate list because the postal code coordinates in Great Britain are quite accurate.
      • The engine is now able to append Organization in more instances when there are no conflicts or multiple possibilities detected.

    • IRELAND

      • Fixed a bug that resulted in FormattedAddress being blank for a good address

    • NEW ZEALAND

      • Performed review of data alignment in country and improved data consistency.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where records with a lot of non-address or junk data can cause the engine to hang for a long period of time

  • Fixed a bug where DeliveryLine was not being populated for records with only AE codes.

Security

  • None

3.0.1.133

Formerly: 3.0.1.139 - June 2017 Update

Released on: June 2017

Added

  • Added AC22 for Organization Change

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Update country coverage for CountrySubdivisionCode values
    • Improved fuzzy matching logic for correcting misspelled thoroughfares

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      DENMARK, EGYPT, FRANCE, HONG KONG, KOREA, MOZAMBIQUE, NEW ZEALAND, SWEDEN

  • Country Specific Updates

    • AUSTRALIA

      • Fixed coding issue where some streets with a very large number of premises did not correctly get coded

    • DENMARK

      • Improved area alignment and general engine coding effectiveness

    • FRANCE

      • Removed certain abbreviations and standardization from triggering change codes

    • GERMANY

      • Fixed some misc. coding issues

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Fixed an issue were an input record would result in an engine crash

    • POLAND

      • Removed certain abbreviations and standardizations from triggering change codes

    • SPAIN

      • Removed certain abbreviations and standardizations from triggering change codes

    • SWEDEN

      • Improved area alignment and general engine coding effectiveness

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None

3.0.1.121

Formerly: 3.0.1.139 - January 2017 Update

Released on: January 2017

Added

  • Added AC22 for Organization Change

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Changed PO Box number errors with correct postal code or localities from AV22,AE12 to AV12,AE12 (targeted for AU,DE,NL,GB)

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, DENMARK, ECUADOR, FINLAND, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, INDONESIA, IRELAND, KOREA, MALAYSIA, NEW ZEALAND, PHILIPPINES, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SPAIN, TAIWAN, THAILAND, TURKEY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, VIETNAM

  • Country Specific Updates

    • BELGIUM

      • Fixed some cases of addresses returning in mixed languages

    • FINLAND

      • Improved area alignment

    • GERMANY

      • Improved recognition of postal codes with a prefix
      • Improved data issue in “Rüsselsheim am Main”

    • GREAT BRITAIN

      • Fixed some incorrect postal code changes in Great Britain
      • Improved coding accuracy in Great Britain

    • INDIA

      • Improved parsing for inputs containing landmark elements

    • IRELAND

      • Fixed matching logic that resulted in too many AE05 - multiple match errors.
      • Fixed issue with the DeliveryLines option not removing all area values into the parsed fields
      • Improving coding accuracy

    • MEXICO

      • Fixed several cases with missing CountrySubdivisionCode

    • NETHERLANDS

      • Fixed cases of coding invalid PO Boxes
      • Improved recognition for organization name in Addressline1
      • Improved area alignment

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed handling of alpha-numeric house numbers and house ranges (eg: 10-12, 10A-12, 10A-12B etc).
  • Fixed several cases of AC03 being triggered without locality change (targeted for FR, LU, and BE)
  • Fixed a case of triggering of AC11 without thoroughfare trailing change (targeted for DK)
  • Fixed some cases of AC20 being incorrectly triggered (targeted for GB)

Security

  • None

3.0.1.115

Formerly: 3.0.1.115 - October 2016 Update

Released on: October 2016

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Speed Improvement for many countries
    • Coding improvement for Great Britian, can now code address with just postal code and house number
    • Company detection improvement for Australia

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Parsing Logic Update:

      ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL, BULGARIA, CHILE, CHINA, CZECH REPUBLIC, EGYPT, GREECE, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, LITHUANIA, POLAND, ROMANIA, THAILAND, VIETNAM, ZIMBABWE

    • Address Handling Update:

      LAOS

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Multiple fixes for Germany
  • Misc address issue fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.114

Formerly: 3.0.1.114 - May 2016 Update

Released on: May 2016

Added

  • Added AddressType return for Canada (previously US only)

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Speed Improvement for many countries
    • Coding improvement for Great Britian, can now code address with just postal code and house number
    • Company detection improvement for Australia

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Parsing Logic Update:

      AAUSTRALIA, CHILE, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, JAPAN, KOREA, NETHERLANDS

    • Address Handling Update:

      BRAZIL, CHILE, CHINA, EGYPT, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, JAPAN, KOREA, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, TAIWAN

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Bug fixes in Germany, United Kingdom, United States
  • Fixed problem with selected address separator not being used in FormattedAddress
  • Misc address issue fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.109

Formerly: 3.0.1.109 - November 2015 Update

Released on: November 2015

Added

  • Added new CountrySubdivisionCode output field. Only populated for some countries

Changed

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Parsing Logic Update:

      AUSTRALIA, CHINA, COLOMBIA, FRANCE, GREECE, KOREA - Address Handling Update:

      ARGENTINA,AUSTRALIA,CHILE,CHINA,FINLAND,FRANCE,GREECE,HONG KONG,INDIA,IRELAND,KOREA,NORWAY,POLAND,TAIWAN,UNITED KINGDOM.

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Bug fixes in Germany
  • Fixed error in the service when blatant non-address data (like email addresses) were sent in
  • Misc address issue fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.105

Formerly: 3.0.1.105 - July 2015 Update

Released on: July 2015

Added

  • Added handling of new South Korean postal code format

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Implemented Significant Speed improvements

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries

    • Parsing Logic Update:

      AUSTRALIA, GREECE, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, - Address Handling Update:

      AUSTRALIA, CHINA, FRANCE, GREECE, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, PORTUGAL, TAIWAN, THAILAND, UNITED KINGDOM

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Misc address issue fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.103

Formerly: 3.0.1.103 - May 2015 Update

Released on: May 2015

Added

  • Added handling of new South Korean postal code format

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Coding improvements for Germany
    • Addresses that do not code will now return back the input in address lines when DELIVERYLINES option is ON

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      CHINA, ECUADOR, GREENLAND, IRAQ, QATAR

    • Parsing Logic Update:

      ARGENTINA,BRAZIL,CHINA,DENMARK,DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,FRANCE, INDIA,ITALY,KOREA - Address Handling Update:

      CHINA, TAIWAN

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Misc bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.101

Formerly: 3.0.1.101 - February 2015 Update

Released on: February 2015

Added

  • Added PO Box data for Germany

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Made coding improvements to Germany
    • Improved verification speed for China
    • Improved title casing for all countries

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries - Parsing Logic Update:

      AUSTRIA,CHINA,SOUTH AFRICA,UNITED KINGDOM,AUSTRALIA,CANADA,CROATIA,CZECH REPUBLIC,FRANCE,GERMANY, GREECE,INDIA,IRELAND,ITALY,KOREA REPUBLIC OF,LIBYA,NEW ZEALAND,PHILIPPINES,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Address Handling Update:

      AUSTRIA, CHINA, SOUTH AFRICA, UNITED KINGDOM

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Misc bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.99

Formerly: 3.0.1.99 - January 2015 Update

Released on: January 2015

Added

  • Added JSONP functionality to the web service

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue that prevented output in NATIVE script
  • Misc bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.1.94

Formerly: 3.0.1.94 - November 2014 Update

Released on: November 2014

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Improved casing for Australia
    • Improved Canadian PO Box parsing
    • Increase recognition of variations of US country names

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries - Parsing Logic Update:

      ARMENIA, AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, BELGIUM, BOTSWANA, BRAZIL, CZECH REPUBLIC, GREECE, HONG KONG, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAQ, MACAO, NEW ZEALAND, SLOVAKIA, SPAIN, TAIWAN, UKRAINE, GREAT BRITAIN - Address Handling Update:

      BELGIUM

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed case where thoroughfare change not being reported in result codes
  • Misc bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.0.90

Formerly: 3.0.1.90 - August 2014 Update

Released on: August 2014

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Improved formatting for some New Zealand and China addresses
    • Improved Hebrew transliteration and processing

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries - Parsing Logic Update:

      AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, CHINA, FRANCE, GIBRALTAR, HONG KONG, HUNGARY, INDIA, JAPAN, MACAO, MEXICO, PHILLIPINES, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, SINGAPORE, SPAIN, TAIWAN, GREAT BRITAIN - Address Handling Update:

      AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CHINA, GERMANY, INDONESIA, ITALY, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, ROMANIA, TURKEY, GREAT BRITAIN

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with some Australian suite/apartment addresses
  • Fixed crashes on certain addresses
  • Fixed street name parsing to building issue in Netherlands
  • Fixed several Dutch parsing issues
  • Other smaller misc fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.0.89

Formerly: 3.0.1.89 - June 2014 Update

Released on: June 2014

Added

  • Addition of an AV code when an AE05 (multiple match error) occurs so the user can still see level to which the address was valid

Changed

  • General Updates

    • Improved spelling correction logic
    • Improved coding rates France, Great Britain, and Germany when an Organization is present
    • Improved handling of extra address lines in the US and Canada so data is not lost
    • Improved matching for floors and incorrect postal codes

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      All Countries - Parsing Logic Update:

      ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, CHINA, COLOMBIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY, INDONESIA, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM - Address Handling Update:

      AUSTRALIA, CHINA, HUNGARY

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • Fixed a Taiwanese parsing issue
  • Fixed street parsing issue in Paris, FR
  • Fixed a consistency issue with Ireland addresses
  • Fixed issues with Germany and Australia mangled addresses

Security

  • None

3.0.0.73

Formerly: 3.0.0.73 - November 2013 Update

Released on: November 2013

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates
    • Improved data for New Zealand and Great Britain
    • Improved Transliteration

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • General Bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.0.54

Formerly: 3.0.0.54 - June 2013 Update

Released on: June 2013

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates
    • Improved data for Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • General Bug fixes

Security

  • None

3.0.0.27

Formerly: 3.0.0.27 - November 2013 Update

Released on: November 2013

Added

  • None

Changed

  • General Updates
    • Allow AddressLines only input (without parsed out locality/admin area/postal code) for US and Canada

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • General Bug fixes

Security

  • None

1.0.0.0

Formerly: 1.0.0.0 - June 2012 Update

Released on: June 2012

Added

  • None

Changed

  • None

Deprecated

  • None

Removed

  • None

Fixed

  • None

Security

  • None